Mi grandinan a siñami no tuma koi sokete for di ningun hende. – My elders skooled me to pump that Curaçao soberbe fist up high in the air.

Mac Alberto – May Day Message to the Power Elite

On February 11, 1971 allegedly in possession of dynamite, Mac Alberto president of the government workers union stepped vexed into the meeting room of the Chamber of Commerce to announce to the tools of the power elite that creole capitalism is killing the black working class of Curaçao and that abolition of the neo-colonial enslavement business was soon to be a new reality.